Dine at Columbia Restaurant, benefit Community Hope Center

Columbia Restaurant is a Central Florida centenarian that sticks to old school Spanish cuisine with a menu full of tapas, paellas, and more in a picture-perfect setting. (Lauren Delgado / Orlando Sentinel)

Dine at any of the seven Columbia Restaurants in Florida this September and your bill could benefit the Community Hope Center.

Simply eat at one of the locations of this Spanish restaurant and mark the Community Hope Center listed on a ballot provided by the server. The Columbia Restaurant will donate 5 percent of the check to the Community Hope Center, a nonprofit that helps low-income, poverty level families and people living in and around Osceola County.

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“We started this program in 1998 as a way to help many of the worthy non-profit groups that are so important to our communities,” said fourth generation Columbia Restaurants family member and president Richard Gonzmart in a news release. “We thought the best way to do this was by letting our customers get involved in selecting the organization.”

More than $2.2 million has been given by the Columbia Restaurant Community Harvest to non-profit organizations throughout Florida for the last 20 years.

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“We are excited to be one of the beneficiaries again this year of the Columbia Community Harvest in September,” said Mary Downey, Executive Director, Community Hope Center, in the news release. “We are grateful to partner with such a great organization as the Columbia Restaurant to help our families in-need here in Osceola County.”

The closest Columbia Restaurant location to the Orlando-area is 649 Front St. in Celebration. It’s open for lunch and dinner from 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.